{"id":35375,"date":"2026-06-18T10:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35375"},"modified":"2026-06-18T10:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:29:44","slug":"another-fan-heard-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/18\/another-fan-heard-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Fan Heard From"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Baruth, in a review<\/a> for a novel called Fish Tales<\/em>, which I likely never will read, says:<\/p>\n

It takes no great skill to scribble nonsense and expect your reader to imbue the required meaning. That\u2019s how you get the \u201cpoetry\u201d of Rupi Kaur or Maya Angelou.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Me-ow!<\/em> says a poet who is also not a fan, having read Milk and Honey<\/em><\/a> a couple of years ago, and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings<\/em> in college (not a lot of Angelou’s poetry, though, and not running out to get some).<\/p>\n

Of course, this same poet (that is, moi<\/em>, he said, somehow mispronouncing the word by putting a consonant on the end) banged out a ten line poem yesterday based on a first and last line that came pretty easily to him yesterday at the coffee shop (total cost of poem: $0 because someone “paid it forward” and bought me a cuppa and a pastry, a gesture I did not myself carry on–wait, the poet is using the third person here, so he meant he did not himself carry on<\/em>). Where was he? He got lost in the parentheses and hand-coded HTML tags. Oh, yes.<\/p>\n

A poem which kinda looks like a TL;DR version of my longer “Estate Sale Stases” poem. Must be just that I’m banging on a single theme lately. Might have to name the eventual chapbook Droughts and Stases<\/em> or something. More catchy than Coffee House Memories<\/a><\/em> which is only 8,966,530 spots behind Milk and Honey<\/em> in the Amazon’s Best Sellers list. But: ABC Books might have sold the three copies I left up there last year. So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Baruth, in a review for a novel called Fish Tales, which I likely never will read, says: It takes no great skill to scribble nonsense and expect your reader to imbue the required meaning. That\u2019s how you get the \u201cpoetry\u201d of Rupi Kaur or Maya Angelou. Me-ow! says a poet who is also not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35376,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35375\/revisions\/35376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}